About Sound Accounting

Sound Accounting is a Certified Public Accounting firm headquartered in Chickamauga, Georgia – just 15 minutes south of downtown Chattanooga. Our firm works with individuals and businesses with a special focus on tax and financial planning.

Why work with a CPA financial planner? Because the person who does your financial planning must also understand the complexities of your tax situation.

“IF YOU CAN’T EXPLAIN IT SIMPLY, YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND IT WELL ENOUGH.” Albert Einstein

Can your tax or financial advisor explain the options available to you simply? Can they answer your questions directly, using terms and language you can understand? If not, they may not truly understand the suggestions they are making for your financial future.

Our Story

Our firm was initially founded to provide accounting and tax services to the small business community in the Chattanooga metro area. Because we specialized in business accounting and tax, we did not handle many individual tax cases during our first years in practice. However, we quickly learned that many of our neighbors were facing financial devastation because of significant tax debt created by simple planning missteps. What we discovered is that most people, as well as most “financial professionals” and advisors, do not understand the tax implications of life’s major decisions and events such as marriage, divorce, re-marriage, buying a home, selling a home, investing, retirement, and death. As more and more people came to us asking for help, we quickly discovered that the failure to consider the tax implications of financial, investment, and retirement decisions can be ruinous. (Read more…)